Harpoon Gun

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Harpoon Gun
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Ammunition	File:Harpoon icon.png Harpoon File:Explosive Harpoon icon.png Explosive Harpoon File:Physicorium Harpoon icon.png Physicorium Harpoon File:Ahab's Spear icon.png Ahab's Spear
Ammo Capacity	6
Ammo Max Stack	8
Skill Requirements
Skill Requirements	Weapons: 30
Handicap	Spread + 9 (1→10)
Crafting
Fabricator Requirements	Skill: Weapons: 30 Steel Bar Plastic 20s
Deconstructor Yield	Steel Bar Plastic 10s
Store
Base Price	75 mk
Outposts Outpost Buy Sell Habitation 112 mk 33 mk Colony 93 mk 28 mk Research 93 mk 28 mk Military 67 mk 20 mk Mining 93 mk 28 mk Medical Merchant N/A 22 mk Engineer Merchant N/A 22 mk Armory Merchant N/A 22 mk Clown Merchant N/A 22 mk Husk Merchant N/A 22 mk
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The Harpoon Gun is a handheld weapon that can be acquired in Barotrauma.

Function

Harpoon guns act as short-to-medium-range light weaponry, firing harpoons at a high velocity. The Harpoon gun is effective both on board of the submarine and underwater, and upon striking another crew member, a creature or a wall, the harpoon may become lodged in the target (note: this does not apply to the Explosive Harpoon) and can usually be recovered and reused. This property (plus the small material cost of the Ammunition) makes the Harpoon Gun a very efficient weapon.

Fired harpoons deliver a moderate amount of Damage and Bleeding, and are proficient at stopping the smaller denizens of Europa, such as Crawlers and Mudraptors.

It should be noted that Characters with inadequate Weapons skill (less than 30) will be affected by greatly increased spread, reducing the effective accuracy of the gun.

Usage

The Harpoon Gun is held with both hands and must be loaded with a File:Harpoon icon.png Harpoon, an File:Explosive Harpoon icon.png Explosive Harpoon, a File:Physicorium Harpoon icon.png Physicorium Harpoon or File:Ahab's Spear icon.png Ahab's Spear to be used. As with all weapons and tools, using it is done by holding the Right-click to take aim, then by Left-clicking to shoot/use.

• Fired Harpoons may be picked up as any other item with Left Mouse Button by default, and reloaded into the Harpoon gun.

• Harpoons stack up to 6, and cannot be put into Storage Containers or Toolbelts.
• Only one ammo type can be loaded into a harpoon gun at a time.
• When fired, a rope spawns connecting harpoon fired and the harpoon gun. Rope drags harpoon (or any target it hits) back to the harpoon gun, and the gun towards target hit if any. Rope snaps automatically exactly 1 second after harpoon is fired.

Item	Afflictions	Structure Damage	Projectile Speed	Reusable?	Source	Price	Raw materials
File:Harpoon icon.png Harpoon	Lacerations: 30 Bleeding: 30 Stun: 0.3 sec.	10	20	Yes	Crafting, stores	27-37.5	Steel Bar
File:Explosive Harpoon icon.png Explosive Harpoon	Lacerations: 20 Stun: 0.4 sec. Explosion, Radius 2.0m Deep Tissue Injury: 40 Bleeding: 50 Stun: 3.0 sec.	15	20	No	Crafting, stores	108-150	File:Harpoon icon.png Harpoon C-4 Block (produces 2 harpoons)
File:Physicorium Harpoon icon.png Physicorium Harpoon	Lacerations: 57.5 Bleeding: 35 Stun: 1 sec.	15	20	Yes	Crafting	N/A	Physicorium Bar
File:Ahab's Spear icon.png Ahab's Spear	Lacerations: 70 Bleeding: 50 Stun: 3.0	20	20	Yes	Wrecks (2% - 3%)	N/A	Steel Bar Iron

The Harpoon and the Physicorium Harpoon can be deconstructed back to their respective crafting materials, while the Explosive Harpoon will only yield 1 Steel. Ahab's Spear will yield 1 Steel and 1 Iron.

Audio

• Harpoon Gun firing 1

• Harpoon Gun firing 2

• Harpoon Gun firing 3

Trivia

• Pre-release videos for Barotrauma showed that harpoons were originally going to have a rope attached between them and the harpoon gun. This would allow the player to retract a harpoon back into the barrel of the gun after launching it. In Among the Ancients update, rope was finally added, but it doesn't allow full retraction of fire harpoon - instead it just drags harpoon back for a second before it snaps, helping to collect it.

Gallery

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  Example of a spear sticking through a player's head.

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  The harpoon gun striking another player as seen in a pre-release video. Note the rope attached to the spear.

• The harpoon gun being shot.

  The harpoon gun being shot.